The Lampo fall season begins :: Saturday, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. :: with Tristan Perich :: at the Graham Foundation, Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL :: Admission is free but reservations are required :: RSVP here ::

Lampo and the Graham Foundation are very happy to bring you Tristan Perich and his “1-Bit Symphony” with 1-bit video. His new five movement work was just released. The press is agog and Grampo too.

1-bit is lo-fi and low-res. Binary electrical pulses — that is, on/off switches — synthesized by code, are routed by microchip to speaker or cathode ray television to create sound or light.
Tristan will show you what can be done with simple forms and complex systems.

Trained in mathematics and piano, Tristan Perich (b. 1982, New York) works in acoustic and electronic music. Best known for his constructions that explore the physicality of sound and the polyphonic potential of 1-bit audio, his “1-Bit Music” (2004-2005) and “1-Bit Symphony” (2010) celebrate the virtuosity of electricity. Neither release is a traditional recording. Instead, each is a music-generating circuit, housed in a CD jewel case with a headphone
jack. Perich also has composed several works for musicians with 1-bit music accompaniment, and is in the music group the Loud Objects (with Kunal Gupta and Katie Shima), which performs by soldering its own noise-making circuits live in front of the audience.

As a visual artist, his projects include “Machine Drawings,” pen-on-paper drawings executed by machine, and 1-bit video, low-resolution black and white images synthesized by microchips and displayed on cathode ray televisions.

His work has been recognized by Prix Ars Electronica, commissioned by Turbulence, Bang on a Can and Rhizome, and performed and exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad. Perich graduated from Columbia University, and received a master’s degree in art, music and electronics at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Co-presented with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Up Next::

Nov 4 - Synchronator (Gert-Jan Prins and Bas Van Koolwijk)
NOV 19 - Joe Grimm
Dec 6 - Lovid

ABOUT LAMPO

Founded in 1997, Lampo is a nonprofit presenter of experimental music and intermedia projects. Current programs are supported in part by the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the John W. and Clara C. Higgins Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and a CityArts Program 1 grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Essential contributions also come from individuals, members and volunteers. More information at http://www.lampo.org/

About the Graham Foundation:

Opening October 28, 2010, Las Vegas Studio, the next exhibition at the Graham Foundation, features photographs and video that became an integral part of the research that led to Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour’s seminal publication, Learning from Las Vegas. Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. For more information on the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts visit www.grahamfoundation.org. Accessibility: Performances are held in the ballroom on the third floor, which is only accessible by stairs. The first floor of the Madlener House is accessible via an outdoor lift. Please call 312.787.4071 to make arrangements.